Total daily tests: 660 New confirmed cases: 16 Cumulative confirmed cases: 18,680 Active cases: 94 Recoveries: 17,912 (6 new) Currently admitted: 10 New deaths: 1 Total deaths: 674 Total vaccinated to date: 35,227 Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Estawini. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa

New cases: 433 Sample size: 4,479 Positvity rate: 9.66% Recoveries: 395 Recorded deaths: 18 Cumulative tests: 1,840,889 Total confirmed cases: 173,072 Total recoveres: 118,621 Cumulative fatalities: 3,326 Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Kenya. Media filesDownload logo Source: Apo-Opa

The Government of Japan has extended its support to the COVID-19 response through its partnership with UNICEF, by improving the COVID-19 vaccines cold chain – ensuring crucial vaccines can be adequately transported and stored. This funding aims to assist the government’s capacity to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The support from Japan includes procurement of cold […]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, strongly condemns the latest attack by armed groups that killed at least 138 civilians in Burkina Faso, the deadliest attack since 2015. On 5 June, gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in Burkina Faso’s northeast Sahel region, near the border with Niger. Assailants stormed the village in the middle of […]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) assisted 95 Malians including 72 women and children to return home from Chad, in coordination with the Governments of Chad and Mali. The migrants boarded a special flight on 01 June chartered as part of IOM’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programme. Among those who benefitted from the AVR assistance were people who had left Mali hoping to reach to Europe but ended up stranded in […]

In the Liptako Gourma cross-border areas of Burkina Faso, Mali and the Niger, the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity (CH Phase 3+) increased from about 1 million to 4.4 million between 2015 and 2020. This complex crisis is driven by increased insecurity and communal violence, exacerbated by growing competition over resources, climatic variability and lack of income […]

The global launch of a $104 million initiative signals an ambitious effort by a range of partners to safeguard drylands in the context of climate change, fragile ecosystems, biodiversity loss, and deforestation in 11 African and Central Asian countries. Funded by the Global Environment Facility and led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the […]

Download logo The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $430,000 grant to Guinea to fight the spread of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic throughout the country. Since mid-February 2021, Guinea has been facing a resurgent Ebola-related epidemic, following the major crisis of 2014. This new epidemic comes against the […]

Download logo Despite disruptions and challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 there were also opportunities. Law firms, legal clinics, community empowerment organizations, and lawyers around the world mobilized in unprecedented ways to ensure access to justice for refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced and stateless people. Almost 165,000 hours of free legal aid […]

New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau is the recipient of the Red Auerbach Trophy as the 2020-21 NBA Coach of the Year, the NBA (www.NBA.com) announced today. This is the second NBA Coach of the Year Award for Thibodeau, who earned the honor in the 2010-11 season with the Chicago Bulls in his first […]